- Tooth decay bacteria found in 4,000-year-old molars -- BBCNews (27 March 2024)
- How do we know what they ate? -- Australian Museum (20 October 2020)
- Archaeology news: How 9,000-year teeth tell us sugary foods and cavities go hand in hand -- EXPRESS (07 July 2020)
- Earliest direct evidence of milk consumption -- BBCNews (10 September 2019)
- Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? -- Peter Ungar, Sapiens (26 July 2017), featured in The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 30, 28 July 2017
- Ancient Dental Plaque Provides a Glimpse into Early Medicine and the Original Paleolithic Diet -- The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 10, 10 March 2017
["The Paleo Diet, popularized by Loren Cordain in a 2002 book of the same title, purports to help people lose weight by encouraging them to imitate the diet of Paleolithic humans. How well does this diet actually resemble what our prehistoric ancestors ate? An international team of researchers, led by the University of Adelaide's Center for Ancient DNA, has recently uncovered new insights into that question through a surprising source: Neanderthal dental plaque. The team examined the plaque of five Neanderthals skulls, ranging in age from 42,000 to 50,000 years old, found at two different cave sites: Spy in Belgium and El Sidron in Spain. Microbiologist Laura Weyrich, the study's lead author, explained, 'Dental plaque traps microorganisms that lived in the mouth and pathogens found in the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract, as well as bits of food stuck in the teeth - preserving the DNA for thousands of years.' By sequencing and examining this DNA, the research team inferred that Neanderthal diets likely varied widely by region. While Spy Cave Neanderthals ate meat (likely from wild rhinos and sheep), those in El Sidron had a vegetarian diet consisting of pine nuts, mushrooms, and tree bark. In short, as Dr. Weyrich puts it, 'The true paleo diet is eating whatever's out there in the environment.'" -- MMB, The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 10, 10 March 2017.]
- Neanderthal Dental Plaque Shows What a Paleo Diet Really Looks Like -- The Atlantic (08 March 2017)
- Ancient Teeth Shed Light on SunWatch Village Burials -- Columbus Dispatch (04 September 2016)
- Egyptian Mummy's Face Recreated with 3D Printing -- LiveScience (30 August 2016)
- Ancient dental plaque sheds new light on the diet of Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans -- ScienceDaily (29 August 2016)
- Professor Studies Dead People's Teeth -- Phys.org (25 August 2016)
- Teeth of Irish Famine Victims Reveal Scientific Markers for Starvation -- Guardian (10 August 2016)
- Bioarchaeologist Studies Dental Remains to Explore the Ancient People and Culture of Oaxaca's Lower Río Verde Valley -- Phys.org (28 July 2016)
- Mummified Egyptian Was Just as Sedentary and Carb-Hungry as Modern Men -- NPR (26 July 2016)
- Hundreds of years later, teeth tell the story of people who didn't get enough sunshine -- ScienceDaily (18 July 2016)
- Changes in primate teeth linked to rise of monkeys -- ScienceDaily (11 July 2016)
- Skeleton With Stone-Encrusted Teeth Found in Mexico Ancient Ruins -- Phys.org (08 July 2016)
- Ancient Baby Teeth Reveal Secrets of a Polynesian Empire -- Forbes (27 June 2016)
- Skeletal Marker of Physiological Stress Might Indicate Good, Rather Than Poor, Health -- ScienceDaily (02 May 2016)
- When It Came To Food, Neanderthals Weren't Exactly Picky Eaters -- NPR (29 April 2016)
- Neandertal versus Modern Human Dietary Responses to Climatic Fluctuations -- PLoS ONE (27 April 2016)
- What Neanderthals' healthy teeth tell us about their minds -- BBCearth (19 April 2016)
- Neanderthal Table Manners: They Used Toothpicks, Too -- LiveScience (14 April 2016)
- Anthropologists reconstruct mitogenomes from prehistoric dental calculus -- ScienceDaily (29 March 2016)
- Paleo-Diet Debates Evolve Into Something Bigger -- Washington Post (07 March 2016)
- How our ancestors drilled rotten teeth -- BBCEarth (29 February 2016)
- 3-D Technology Used to Safely Reveal the Diet of 'Chaucer's Children' -- Phys.org (25 February 2016)
- Predicting human evolution: Teeth tell the story -- Phys.org (24 February 2016)
- A fishy tale of a sheep in wolf's clothing [Scientists have developed a technique to perform dietary analysis of fish by analysing microscopic tooth wear] -- PHYS (10 December 2015)
- Plague DNA Detected in Bronze Age Teeth -- Discovery News (22 October 2015)
- Trove of teeth from cave represents oldest modern humans in China -- Science (14 October 2015)
- Teeth from China Reveal Early Human Trek Out of Africa -- Nature (14 October 2015)
- Baboon Uses Broom Bristles for Dental Floss -- Discovery News (12 October 2015)
- New Studies Explore Impact of Environmental Change on Tooth Wear -- Phys.org (07 October 2015)
- Ancient Pompeiians Had Good Dental Health But Were Not Necessarily Vegetarians -- Forbes (30 September 2015)
- Ancient tooth found in French cave -- BBC News (28 July 2015)
- French Student Finds Tooth Dating Back 560,000 Years -- Guardian (28 July 2015)
- Oldest Dentistry Found in 14,000-Year-Old Tooth -- Discovery News (16 July 2015)
- 400,000 year-old lifestyle discovered in dental tartar -- Past Horizons (17 June 2015)
- 400,000-Year-Old Dental Tartar Provides Earliest Evidence of Humanmade Pollution -- ScienceDaily (17 June 2015)
- City Living in Roman Britain Meant Longer Lives But Worse Teeth -- New Scientist (08 May 2015)
- Dental enamel reveals surprising migration patterns in ancient Indus civilizations -- Phys.org (30 April 2015)
- Teeth from Irish Famine Era Could Help Predict Future Health of Children -- Past Horizons (17 April 2015)
- Dental calculus analysis reveals mushrooms were consumed as early as the Upper Palaeolithic -- Phys.org (17 April 2015)
- Humans adapted to rain forests earlier than previously thought -- Past Horizons (13 March 2015)
- Humans adapted to living in rainforests much sooner than thought -- ScienceDaily (12 March 2015)
- Dental Ontogeny in Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Hominins -- PLoS ONE (18 February 2015)
- Grooves in Neanderthal Teeth Suggests Division of Labour Between Sexes -- Past Horizons (19 February 2015)
- Teeth Contain Bacterial DNA from Plague Epidemics -- Past Horizons (10 February 2015)
- Ill-Fitting Teeth Began With Earliest Farmers -- Past Horizons (05 February 2015)
- Malocclusion and dental crowding arose 12,000 years ago with earliest farmers -- Science Daily (04 February 2015)
- Dental Plaque Reveals Key Plant in Prehistoric Easter Island Diet -- Science Daily (15 December 2014)
- Is This the Stomach-Turning Truth About What the Neanderthals Ate? -- Guardian (19 October 2013)
- Neanderthals Used Toothpicks to Alleviate the Pain of Diseases Related to Teeth -- ScienceDaily (17 October 2013)
- 'Ancient Humans' Used Toothpicks -- BBC News (08 October 2013)
- An Evolutionary Compromise for Long Tooth Preservation -- ScienceDaily (24 July 2013)
- Ancient Teeth Bacteria Record Disease Evolution -- ScienceDaily (17 February 2013)
- Grit-Filled Foods Wore Down Early Humans' Teeth -- LiveScience (24 January 2013)
- Toothy Tumor Found in 1,600-Year-Old Roman Corpse -- Discovery News (22 January 2013)
- Thanks to the Fork, Humans Developed an Overbite -- Wesley Fenlon, Tested (18 January 2013)
- Mummy with Mouthful of Cavities Discovered -- LiveScience (09 October 2012)
- Neolithic dentistry revealed in beeswax filling -- Past Horizons (25 September 2012)
- Beeswax as Dental Filling on a Neolithic Human Tooth -- PLoS ONE (19 September 2012)
- Ancient Teeth Provide Evidence for Early Stress -- Past Horizons (30 July 2012)
- Hong Kong Dentist to Help Check Pharaoh's Cavity -- Reuters (08 March 2012)
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